Lights, camera, Moses

For half a century, while he built a reputation as one of the great novelists of his generation with works like Marjorie Morningstar and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk chased what he called “the impossible novel”—a story based on the life of Moses. He never found the key to making the book work. Until now.The Lawgiver is in many ways a culmination for Wouk. Delivered near the...